Tombs of the South Asasif Necropolis New Discoveries and Research 2012-2014

by Pischikova, Elena

• ISBN13: 9789774167249
• ISBN10: 9774167244
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-07-01
• Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press

Author Biography

Elena Pischikova is the director of the American-Egyptian South Asasif Conservation Project. She is currently a research scholar at the American University in Cairo, and teaches at Fairfield University in Connecticut. She is the author of Tombs of the South Asasif Necropolis: Thebes, Karakhamun (TT 223), and Karabasken (TT 391) in the Twenty-fifth Dynasty (AUC Press, 2013).

Table of Contents

Theban Sacred Landscape in the Twenty-fifth Dynasty
1. Karnak Quaysides: Embankments from the New Kingdom to the Kushito-Saite Period 722-525 BC, Mansour Bureik
South Asasif Necropolis : Excavation, Conservation and Reconstruction
2. Tombs of Karakamun and Karabasken in 2012-2014, Elena Pischikova
3. Architecture of the Open Court of the Tomb of Karakhamun, Dieter Eigner
Religious Texts in the Tombs of Karakhamun and Karabasken
4. Reconstruction of the Ritual of the Hours of the Day ("Stundenritual") in TT 223 (Second Report), Erhart Graefe
5. Ritual of the Hours of the Night, Kenneth Griffin
6. Spell 32 of the Book of the Dead on the North Wall of the First Pillared Hall, Miguel Molinero Polo and Margarida Redondo Vilanova
7. Paleography of the Spell 125 of the Book of the Dead in the Burial Chamber, Miguel Molinero Polo and Andrea Rodriguez Valls
8. Texts of the "Tornische" in the tomb of Karabasken, Miguel Molinero Polo
Reuse of the Tombs of Karakhamun and Karabasken in Later Periods
9. A New High Stewart of the God's Wife Nitokris: Padibastet, Grandson of Pabasa and Successor of Padihorresnet (Twenty-sixth Dynasty Usurper of the Tomb of Karabasken, Erhart Graefe
10. The Fragments of Door-jambs of the [Overseer] of the Draftsmen and Chamberlain of the God's Wife, Padihor (Twenty-sixth Dynasty Usurper of the First Pillared Hall of the Tomb of Karakahamun), Erhart Graefe
11. Sculptural Workshop in the Open Court of the Tomb of Karabasken, Elena Pischikova
12. Coptic Ostraca in the Tombs of the South Asasif Necropolis, Matthias Müller
Burial Assemblages and Other Finds
13. Faience Objects and their Production in the South Asasif Necropolis, Paul Nicholson
14. Pottery in the Tombs of Karakahamun and Karabasken, Julia Budka
15. Faunal Remains in the Tomb of Karabasken, Salima Ikram